CISA orders feds to patch BlueHammer flaw exploited as zero-day

CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch a Microsoft Defender privilege escalation flaw (dubbed BlueHammer) that has ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Keeps Adding VS 2026 MCP Functionality to VS 2022, but Not Much Else

Microsoft's new move to ship Azure MCP tools inside Visual Studio 2022 adds to a small but notable pattern of selected Visual Studio 2026-era functionality later showing up in the older IDE, led by a ...

Paul Revere’s midnight ride unfolds in broad daylight — with a police escort

The historic midnight ride of Paul Revere was reenacted Monday but with some modern-day tweaks: It was run in the middle of ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Using Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical security flaw in update to ASP.NET Core

Patching is not enough: applications embedding the insecure library will need to be rebuilt, and affected tokens and cookies expired. Developers are advised to check their applications after Microsoft ...